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Informationen zum Autor Kristen L. Buras is Assistant Professor of Multicultural Urban Education in the Division of Educational Studies at Emory University. She has written on school reform in Harvard Educational Review and is co-editor of The Subaltern Speak: Curriculum, Power, and Educational Struggles . Klappentext In this groundbreaking book, Kristen Buras provides the first detailed, critical examination of the Core Knowledge movement and explores the history and cultural politics underlying neoconservative initiatives in education. Zusammenfassung In this groundbreaking book, Kristen Buras provides the first detailed, critical examination of the Core Knowledge movement and explores the history and cultural politics underlying neoconservative initiatives in education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Rightist Multiculturalism as the New Hegemony 1. Historicizing Core Knowledge: Neoconservatism, Cultural Deficiency and the Civil Rights Frontier 2. Questioning Core Assumptions: A Critical Reading of E.D. Hirsch’s Educational Vision 3. Tracing the Core Knowledge Movement 4. The Disuniting of America’s History: Core Knowledge and the National Past 5. Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform. Appendix A: Methodologies: Getting to the Core of the Matter. Appendix B: Correspondence on the Politics of Antonio Gramsci from Harvard Educational Review
